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Firchow Peter Edgerly <1937-> |
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Titolo |
Modern utopian fictions from H.G. Wells to Iris Murdoch / / Peter Edgerly Firchow |
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Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2007 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Utopias in literature |
Dystopias in literature |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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H.G. Wells's Time machine and the end of utopia -- Shaw's Major Barbara : what price utopia? -- Utopia and the end of history : Huxley, Fukuyama, Marcuse -- George Orwell's dystopias : from Animal farm to Nineteen eighty-four -- William Golding's Lord of the flies : an island utopia? -- Subjectivity and utopia in Iris Murdoch's The bell. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book aims to put the fiction back into utopian fictions.While tracing the development of fiction in the writing of modern utopias, especially in Britain, it seeks to demonstrate in specific ways how those utopias have become increasingly literary--possibly as a reaction not only against the "social scientification" of modern utopias but also. |
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